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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICIENT, THE MERCIFUL.

BY THE GRACE OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH S.W.T. AND THE FAVOURS OF MAASOOMEEN A.S. WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO PRESENT THIS BOOK NO. 2 ON USOOL-E-DEEN WHICH IS THE CONTINUATION OF FOUNDATION BOOKLET AND BOOK 1.

IT IS SINCERELY ANTICIPATED THAT THE BOOKS WILL BE READ BY CONCENTRATION IN THE SET SERIES AND THE CONTENTS WELL GRASPED SO AS TO BE ABLE TO OBSERVE AND FOLLOW THE RIGHT PATH WHICH LEADS TO THE EVER PROSPEROUS DESTINY.

IT IS ALSO EXPECTED THAT THOSE WHO GRASP THE CONTENTS SATISFACTORILY WILL PASS ON TO THOSE WHO MAY NOT HAVE ACQUIRED THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE IN FUNDAMENTALS OF RELIGION AS PRESENTED IN THIS SERIES OF BOOKLETS.

LASTLY, WE WISH TO APOLOGISE FOR NOT HAVING DISCUSSED THE TOPIC OF JUSTICE OF ALLAH (ADL) AT A LENGTH IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, IN THE FEAR THAT THE CONTENTS WILL BE TOO LENGTHY AND THE LEVEL OF DEPTH MUCH MORE THAN WE EXPECT TO MAINTAIN.

5TH SHAWWAL, 1420

12TH JANUARY, 2000

IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE READER HAS GONE THROUGH OUR FOUNDATION BOOKLET ON USOOL-E-DEEN AND UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF ADL (JUSTICE OF ALLAH) EXPLAINED IN LESSON NO. 4. IF THIS HAS NOT BEEN DONE, WE WOULD ADVISE THE READER TO GO THROUGH THAT BOOKLET AND PARTICULARLY THAT LESSON FIRST, SO THAT THE BASIC AND THE DEPTH OF THE MEANING OF ADL (JUSTICE) IS UNDERSTOOD. THE INTRINSIC MEANING OF ADL IS ANY MOST PERFECT AND MOST APPROPRIATE ACTION. ANY THING PLACED AT ITS MOST APPROPRIATE PLACE OR STAGE IS JUSTICE, BUT CONTRARY TO IT WILL BE INJUSTICE. SINCE ALLAH S.W.T. IS THE CREATOR, HIS ALL ACTIONS AS REGARDS CREATIONS, APPOINTMENTS, PLACEMENTS, IN FACT EVERY ASPECT MUST BE MOST PERFECT IN EVERY RESPECT. WE GAVE THE EXAMPLE OF THE PERFECTNESS OF THE MOVEMENTS OF THE STARS, THE MOON AND THE SUN; IN THAT AFTER MILLIONS OF YEARS, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A DIFFERENCE OF EVEN A SMALL PART OF A SECOND. WE HAD GIVEN A BRIEF EXAMPLE OF GASES. NOW CONSIDER THAT A LARGE TANK OF WATER IS FILLED UP TO A LEVEL WHICH IS EXACTLY ONE THOUSAND GALLONS. IF SOME PEOPLE ARE TOLD TO TAKE EMPTY BOWLS AND FILL THEREIN WATER FROM THIS TANK AND GO ON THROWING IT OUT AND AT THE SAME TIME SOME OTHER PERSONS (EVEN IF EQUAL IN NUMBERS TO THE FIRST ONES) ARE ASKED TO TAKE EXACTLY IDENTICAL BOWLS AND TAKE WATER FROM ANOTHER TANK WHICH IS NEARBY AND GO ON PUTTING INTO THE TANK FROM WHICH THE FIRST TEAM IS TAKING WATER AND THROWING IT OUT. WILL THE QUANTITY OF WATER IN THE FIRST TANK REMAIN EXACTLY ONE THOUSAND GALLONS ALL THE TIME? THE ANSWER WILL BE "SURELY NO." AT NO TIME AT ALL, EXCEPT BEFORE THE PROCESS OF TAKING OUT OR PUTTING IN OF WATER STARTS, WILL THE QUANTITY OF WATER IN THE TANK REMAIN EXACTLY ONE THOUSAND GALLONS EVEN IF THE PROCESS OF TAKING OUT AND PUTTING IN IS STARTED BY EQUAL NUMBER OF PERSONS AND AT THE SAME TIME BOTH OPERATIONS TAKING PLACE SIMULTANEOUSLY. PLEASE MAINTAIN THE END RESULT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR MIND AND READ FURTHER. LET US NOW RETURN TO THE SO CALLED "NATURE’S REALITY" WHICH IS THE SET UP OF THE SUPREME CREATOR. IT IS AN UNCHALLENGEABLE REALITY THAT, AT THE OUTSET, THE POPULATION OF THIS WORLD WAS ONLY TWO HUMAN BEINGS - THAT IS PROPHET -3- ADAM A.S. AND HIS WIFE (ORIGINAL HUMAN GREAT GRAND MOTHER) EVE (HAZRAT HAWWA A.S.). THE WHOLE WORLD WAS FULL OF VEGETATION (PLANTS, TREES, GRASS, ETC.). EVEN THE ANIMALS WERE HARDLY EXISTANT. AS DAYS, MONTHS, YEARS, DECADES AND CENTURIES PASSED, BOTH HUMAN AS WELL AS ANIMAL POPULATION WENT ON INCREASING WHILE THE GRASS AND PLANTS (I.E. VEGETATION) WERE CLEARED - REMOVED - TO BUILD HOUSES - RESIDENCE - FOR THE HUMAN BEINGS. AGAIN TREES WERE CUT TO MAKE FIREWOOD, COAL, FURNITURE, ETC. FOR HUMAN BEINGS TO BE ABLE TO COOK FOOD AND IN FACT CONSTRUCT HUTS ETC. AND THUS VEGETATION WENT ON DECREASING. SO THE VEGETATION (GRASS, PLANTS, TREES, ETC.) WERE BEING REDUCED WHILE THE POPULATION OF HUMAN BEINGS AND ANIMALS WENT ON INCREASING. THAT IS TO SAY THAT THE CONSUMERS OF OXYGEN WENT INCREASING WHILST ITS PRODUCERS WENT ON DECREASING. AGAIN PLEASE KEEP THIS FACT (OR REALITY) ALSO IN YOUR MIND. NOW LET US TURN TO THE NATURAL FACT WHICH THE BEGINNER SCIENCE STUDENTS (OR PUPILS) ARE TAUGHT AND THAT IS THE COMPOSITION OF AIR AND THE THEORY THAT AIR OCCUPIES SPACE. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT TAUGHT TO PUPILS IS TO PROVE THAT ⅕TH OF THE CONTENTS OF AIR IS OXYGEN WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR THE SURVIVAL OF LIVING THINGS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, ANIMALS, INSECTS ETC. AND ALSO FOR ALL SORTS OF COMBUSTION. IF THE RATIO OF THE CONTENT OF OXYGEN INCREASES OR DECREASES, ALL HUMAN BEINGS, ANIMALS, INSECTS ETC. WOULD SUFFOCATE AND DIE AND THIS WORLD WOULD STINK BADLY WITH THE DECOMPOSING BODIES AND NO LIFE WILL EXIST ON THIS EARTH. ALSO, IF OTHER GASES LIKE NITROGEN WILL INCREASE OR DECREASE, THE VEGETATION WILL BE SIMILARLY DESTROYED. BEYOND ALL, THE SMALLEST QUANTITY OF THE SO CALLED “RARE GASES” IN THE AIR, IF INCREASED OR DECREASED, WOULD CAUSE IRREPARABLE DESTRUCTION. IF CARBON DIOXIDE INCREASES OR DECREASES, SAME WOULD BE THE FATE. NOW LET US TURN TO THE FACT IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE WHERE WE LOGICALLY OBSERVED THAT WHERE THE FIXED OR DEFINITE CONTENTS OF THE TANK ARE CONSTANTLY REMOVED AND REPLENISHED BY EVEN EQUAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE, THE WATER CONTENTS AT ANY POINT OF TIME WILL NOT REMAIN EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ORIGINAL MEASURE (OR VOLUME). NOW CONSIDER THE RELATIVE (PERCENTAGE) CONTENTS OF OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE AIR. WHEN THE CONSUMERS OF OXYGEN WERE ONLY TWO HUMAN BEINGS AND IN COMPARISON OF IT THE PRODUCERS (THE PLANTS, TREES, GRASSES ETC.) DURING DAY TIME WHO ADD OXYGEN TO THE AIR WERE SO INNUMERABLE, THE OXYGEN CONTENT OF THE AIR DID NOT INCREASE EVEN SLIGHTLY DESPITE DISPROPORTIONATE ADDITION (BY PLANTS ETC.) AND CONSUMPTION (BY HUMAN BEING ETC.) OF OXYGEN TO AND FROM THE AIR, NOR DID THE CARBON DIOXIDE CONTENT CHANGE EVEN SLIGHTLY. HUMAN AND ANIMAL POPULATION (THE CONSUMERS OF OXYGEN AT EVERY BREATH AND THE EMITTERS OF CARBON DIOXIDE) WENT ON MULTIPLYING; AND THE VEGETATION – (PLANTS, TREES ETC.) BEING THE PRODUCERS OF OXYGEN – WENT ON DECREASING AND, TO WORSEN THE SITUATION, FIRES, FACTORIES, TRAINS AND OTHER ENGINES, MOTOR CARS AND MOTORCYCLES, AEROPLANES AND ALL SORTS OF OXYGEN CONSUMING AND -4- CARBON-DIOXIDE EMITTING ITEMS WENT ON MULTIPLYING. YET WE OBSERVE THAT NEITHER THE CONTENTS OF OXYGEN NOR OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE AIR HAVE INCREASED OR DECREASED AND NO ONE IS DEAD OWING TO THIS. NOT EVEN THE CONTENTS OF NITROGEN OR THE SMALLEST QUANTITY OF “RARE GASES” HAS CHANGED. ALL THIS PROVES THAT THERE IS A SUPREME POWER BEYOND HUMAN IMAGINATION WHO BALANCES THE WHOLE SITUATION SUCH THAT THE MOST ACCURATE EQUILIBRIUM HAS BEEN, IS AND WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS SUPREME COMMAND. THE EXPERIMENT OF INVERTING A JAR OVER A BURNING CANDLE IN A TROUGH CONTAINING WATER GIVES THE SAME RESULT ACCURATELY AS IT USE TO GIVE CENTURIES AGO. THIS OBVIOUS RESULT PROVES THE SUPREME PERFECTNESS WITH WHICH THE SET UP OF THE CREATOR FUNCTIONS UNDER HIS ORDERS. IN OUR FOUNDATION BOOKLET WE HAD DRAWN THE ATTENTION OF THE READERS TOWARDS THE EXAMPLE OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE STARS, AND TO THIS YOU MUST ADD THE MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PLANETS AND, IN FACT, OF ALL THE GALAXIES SO FAR KNOWN TO HUMAN BEINGS AND OBSERVE THE SUPER PERFECTNESS WITH WHICH THEY FUNCTION. AGAIN, THE CREATION OF NUTRIENTS, THEIR CONTENTS IN EACH OF THE ITEMS OF VEGETATION, MEAT AND ALL EDIBLES AND THE SUPREME PERFECTNESS OF THEIR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN BEINGS AND OTHER CREATION AND ALSO THE SUPREME PERFECTNESS OF THE SYSTEM OF THEIR PRODUCTION IN THE MOST PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM, WHEN THOUGHT UPON, WILL OBLIGE ALL SENSIBLE HUMAN BEINGS TO PROSTRATE TO HIM FOR THE TREASURES OF WONDERS HIDDEN INTO EACH IMAGINABLE ASPECT OF ALL THESE. EVEN WHEN ONE STARTS PONDERING OVER THE SHAPES OF THINGS OR EVEN PART THEREOF (OVER WHICH EVEN THE BIGGEST SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS ARE GROSSLY IGNORANT) THE PERFECTNESS WITH WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN CREATED IS BEYOND HUMAN IMAGINATION. WE HAD MENTIONED THAT IF WE START PONDERING OVER THE VEINS AND CAPILLARIES IN OUR BODY: THEIR NUMBER, THE EXACT POSITION OF EACH OF THEIR PARTS (OR SECTION) IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BODY, THEIR SIZES, AND IN FACT EACH TURN IN THEM HAS AN IMPACT OVER HUMAN BODY YET THE GREATEST SCIENTISTS AND BIOLOGISTS ARE IGNORANT OF THIS. WHEN THEY START RESEARCHING OVER THE SUBJECT OF VEINS ONLY IN THE ASPECTS MENTIONED, IT WILL TAKE THEM CENTURIES TO KNOW ONLY SOME PARTS OF THE OCEANS OF KNOWLEDGE HIDDEN THEREIN AND ALSO SOME OF THE IN BUILT REMEDIAL EFFECTS OF THEM FOR PROTECTION AGAINST AND ALSO FOR TREATMENT OF VARIOUS IMBALANCES – I.E. DISEASES – CREATED BY HUMAN CARELESSNESS. ALL THIS SHOWS HOW PERFECTLY EVERYTHING HAS BEEN CREATED BY HIM. WHEN YOU GO ON SENSIBLY THINKING OVER EACH AND EVERYTHING WITHIN YOUR VISION, YOU WILL YOURSELF REALIZE THAT HIS PERFECT SET UP IS SUCH THAT HUMAN BRAIN CANNOT REACH EVEN THE FIRST STEP OF IT. YOU MAY ALSO ADD ONE MORE THING TO OUR EXAMPLE OF THE GASES -(OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE, RARE GASES ETC.)- THAT WHEN THERE IS LIGHTENING IN THE SKY AT THE TIME OF RAIN, APART FROM THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY (AT THE RATE OF 10 MILLION TO 2 BILLION VOLTS PER SECOND) AT LEAST 10 MILLION TONS OF NITROGEN GAS IS PRODUCED EVERY YEAR WHICH DESCENDS ON THE EARTH WITH THE RAIN AND ADDS TO THE FERTILITY OF LAND (ACTING AS FERTILIZER) AND DESPITE THAT VOLUMINOUS PRODUCTION OF NITROGEN AND ITS COMING DOWN TO THE EARTH, THE NITROGEN CONTENT OF THE AIR NEITHER INCREASES NOR DECREASES. WHO IS BALANCING THIS SUPER EQUILIBRIUM? (REFER SAHEEFA-E-KAMELAH DUA NO.36 – ALSO SURA-E-RA’AD VERSE NO.12).
NOW TURNING TO SIMPLE EXAMPLES OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE WE (IN FACT ANY SENSIBLE PERSON) WILL CONCLUDE THAT IT WILL BE GROSSLY INJUSTICE IF:- (I) INSTEAD OF PUNISHING A THIEF HE IS GIVEN A PRIZE. (II) INSTEAD OF AWARDING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO A MURDERER HE IS AWARDED HIGHER GRADES. (III) INSTEAD OF GIVING APPROPRIATE LABOUR CHARGE, A LABOURER IS LOOTED AND BEREAVED OF HIS BELONGINGS. (IV) INSTEAD OF PAYING TO THE SHOPKEEPER FOR THE PURCHASES MADE OF HIM, HE IS BEATEN UP. (V) AS A REWARD OF GROWING FOOD, THE FARMER IS MADE TO STARVE. (VI) ROBBERS ARE APPOINTED AS JUDGES. (VII) A QUALIFIED AND TALENTED ENGINEER IS GIVEN THE JOB OF A SWEEPER; AND AN ILLITERATE SWEEPER IS APPOINTED AS A TECHNICAL ENGINEER.. ALL THE ABOVE ARE INJUSTICES AND YOU MAY GO ON THINKING OF SO MANY OTHERS. IN THIS WORLD MANY DISGUISED TYRANNIES AND INJUSTICES ARE BEING METED OUT TO THOSE CONSIDERED WEAK BY THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES POWERFUL. THE SUPREME CREATOR'S ORDERS AND GUIDANCE THROUGH HIS HOLY PROPHETS AND HOLY IMAMS ARE BEING IGNORED AND FLAGRANT VIOLATIONS OF THEM ARE DONE. SOME ARE DONE DIRECTLY, FOR WHICH THE ORDERS OF GOD ARE THERE BUT MANY TIMES ARE IGNORED ESPECIALLY IF THE CULPRIT IS AN INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN THE EYES OF HUMAN BEINGS. HOWEVER, THERE ARE INNUMERABLE INDIRECT OR DISGUISED INJUSTICES WHICH GO UNNOTICED OR ARE SHOWN TO THE CONTRARY - AS ASSISTANCE ETC. - IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THE SO CALLED SUPER POWERS OR POWERFUL PERSONALITIES FROM THE BLAME OF MASS INJUSTICE AND TYRANNY. UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IT IS UTMOST JUSTICE TO APPOINT A DAY FOR JUDGEMENT OF THOSE DEEDS AND DISGUISED INJUSTICES, TYRANNIES AND ALSO FOR THE GOOD DEEDS AND FOR OBEDIENCE OF HIS ORDERS AND GUIDANCE. -6- EVERY SENSIBLE INDIVIDUAL WILL IMPLICITLY ADMIT - WITH HIS SENSES, INTELLECT AND LOGIC THAT: JUSTICE IS RIGHT JUSTICE IS VIRTUE INJUSTICE IS WRONG INJUSTICE IS VICE JUSTICE IS DONE WHEN A DOER OF GOOD DEED IS REWARDED. SIMILARLY JUSTICE IS DONE WHEN A TYRANT IS PUNISHED. SO REWARD AS WELL AS PUNISHMENT IS JUSTICE WHEN GRANTED EXACTLY IN CONFORMITY WITH THE DEEDS. SIMILARLY, TO ACCEPT WHAT IS RIGHT AND TO SUPPORT IT, NEEDS THE BEST REWARD AND TO ACCEPT WHAT IS WRONG AND TO SUPPORT IT NEEDS SEVEREST PUNISHMENT. EVERY COUNTRY CLAIMS TO PRACTICE JUSTICE AND FOR THAT REASON AMONG THE FUNCTIONING DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENTS, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS RANKED TOP-MOST WHERE ANYONE WISHING TO APPEAL AGAINST EVEN OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT'S DECISIONS CAN DO SO. AGAIN, ALL ORGANISATIONS, WHETHER OF BUSINESS, CHARITY OR ANYTHING AND EVEN INDIVIDUALS UN-EQUIVOCALLY CLAIM TO SUPPORT JUSTICE - THAT IS THEY CLAIM TO SUPPORT THE RIGHT - AND DISSOCIATE FROM INJUSTICE - THAT IS THEY DISSOCIATE FROM WHAT IS WRONG. WHEN HUMAN BEINGS, WHO ARE ONLY CREATED, OPENLY SUPPORT JUSTICE AND HATE INJUSTICE, HOW CAN ANY SENSIBLE PERSON VENTURE TO FALL BELOW THE LEVEL OF AN ANIMAL BY EVEN SLIGHTLY DOUBTING ABOUT JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. WHO IS THE CREATOR OF JUSTICE? SCIENTISTS, BIOLOGISTS, RESEARCHERS ETC. AFTER CENTURIES OF THEIR RESEARCH, CAME TO KNOW THE CONTENTS OF VARIOUS GASES IN THE AIR AND TO SOME EXTENT THEIR USEFULNESS TO VARIOUS CREATIONS. THINK OF THE SUPREME POWER AND SUPREME KNOWLEDGE WHO CREATED THESE GASES IN THAT RATIO AND CREATED IN THEM THE EFFECTS THAT ABUNDANTLY BENEFIT INNUMERABLE CREATIONS IN VARIOUS WAYS AND AT THE SAME TIME CREATED THE NEED AND POWER TO ABSORB THESE GASES IN VARIOUS PROPORTIONS IN THOSE CREATIONS AND PROVIDE UNIMAGINABLE BENEFITS TO THEM. AGAIN, THE SAME TYPE OF CONSIDERATIONS GO FOR ELEMENTS THAT ARE CREATED BY HIM IN THE EARTH WHICH FORM NUTRIENTS FOR UNTHINKABLE TYPES OF PLANTS, SHRUBS, GRASS, TREES ETC., EACH ENDOWED BY THE SUPREME CREATOR WITH POWERS TO ABSORB ONLY THE REQUIRED PROPORTION AND CONVERT EXACTLY INTO THE REQUIRED RATIO, COLOUR, SWEETNESS, TYPE OF NUTRIENT REQUIRED FOR THAT PARTICULAR USE TO WHICH THE INITIAL, MID AND END PRODUCTS ARE TO BE PUT - OR IN OTHER WORDS, THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY ARE CREATED. THE END PRODUCT OF ONE CREATION BECOMES THE INPUT OF THE OTHER CREATION AND SO ON - LIKE THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BECOME THE INPUT FOR HUMAN BEINGS. AGAIN SOME VEGETABLES AND GRASSES ACT AS MEDICINES FOR HUMAN BEINGS. SOME GRASSES BECOME FOOD INPUT FOR ANIMALS AND SOME MEDICINES FOR THEM. THESE INPUTS IN HUMAN BEINGS IN TURN BY THE ENDOWMENT OF THE SUPREME CREATOR ARE CONVERTED INTO PHYSICAL BODIES LIKE BLOOD, FLESH, BONES, VEINS -7- ETC. OR ADD TO PHYSICAL POWERS LIKE STRENGTH, HEALTH, THE FIVE SENSES ETC. OR ADD TO THE POWERS OF THE SOUL, LIKE TALENTS, UNDERSTANDING, PERCEPTION OF THE RIGHT, REPULSION OF THE WRONG, SYMPATHY, AUDECITY ETC. IN ORDER TO ADD TO OR CREATE THE ABOVE MENTIONED AND MANY OTHER PHYSICAL AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL POWERS WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL, THE INPUT MUST BE OF THE RIGHT TYPE AND NOT OF THE WRONG TYPE SINCE THE LATTER WILL CREATE ILL EFFECTS INSTEAD OF BENEFICIAL ONES. FOR EXAMPLE, IF SOMEONE TAKES POISON AS AN INPUT, IT WILL KILL HIM. THE LOGICAL RESULT IS THAT THERE ARE BROADLY AT LEAST TWO TYPES OF INPUTS (I) BENEFICIAL ONES (II) THOSE THAT ARE PHYSICALLY OR MORALLY OR SPIRITUALLY HARMFUL. ALLAH S.W.T. HAS THEREFORE FORBIDDEN - THAT IS HE HAS CATEGORISED AS HARAAM - THE SECOND TYPE OF INPUTS, WHEREAS THE FIRST TYPE ARE HALAAL - PERMITTED ONES. YOU WILL THEREFORE, ADMIT INTELLECTUALLY THAT DIVINE LAWS AS REGARDS HALAAL (PERMITTED) AND HARAAM (FORBIDDEN) ARE LOGICALLY NECESSARY AND IT IS THE JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. (WHO IS THE CREATOR AND ALL-KNOWER OF THE EFFECTS) TO HAVE FORBIDDEN ITEMS AND ACTIONS ETC. WHICH HE KNOWS ARE HARMFUL TO HUMAN BEINGS - PHYSICALLY AND/OR SPIRITUALLY. IT IS INCUMBENT UPON HUMAN BEINGS TO IMPLICITLY OBEY THE ORDERS OF THE SUPREME CREATOR IN ORDER TO SAVE ONESELF FROM THE RESULTING DISASTERS. APART FROM HALAAL AND HARAAM, THERE ARE CERTAIN TIMES, DAYS, SEASONS OR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES DURING WHICH CERTAIN INPUTS OR ACTIONS ARE NOT SUITABLE AND MAY NOT CREATE GOOD EFFECT BUT MAY EVEN RETARD OR DELAY OR AVOID GOOD EFFECTS - CERTAIN INPUTS OR ACTIONS AT SUCH TIMES OR UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE CATEGORISED AS MAKROOH (UNLIKED, REPELLED) WHEREAS AT TIMES CERTAIN INTAKES OR ACTIONS ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AND THEY ARE TERMED AS MUSTAHAB - CARRYING CERTAIN BENEFITS FROM THE CREATOR. THESE ARE ALSO LOGICALLY NECESSARY FOR HUMAN BEINGS AND ARE THE PROOFS OF JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T.. THINK OF EACH PLANT OR TYPE OF PLANTS INDIVIDUALLY AND THE SYSTEM OF THE INTERNAL GROWTH OF EACH AND THE DEVELOPMENT FUNCTIONS AS WELL AS EACH OF THEIR EXTERNAL FUNCTIONS AND AS REGARDS THEIR EFFECTS ETC. YOU WILL REALISE THAT EACH AND EVERY OF ITS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FUNCTIONS IS WORKING SO PERFECTLY TODAY AS IT WAS FUNCTIONING CENTURIES AGO. THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE, EVEN SLIGHTEST, BETWEEN THEIR PERFECT FUNCTIONING CENTURIES AGO AND NOW BECAUSE THEY ARE SO PERFECTLY SET BY THE ORDER OF THE SUPREME CREATOR. ONE MUST CONSIDER AND PONDER ON THE SAME LINES, OVER THE FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN BODIES SINCE THEY WERE BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE FROM TIME UNKNOWN BY HUMAN BEINGS THEMSELVES. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY CHANGE IN FUNCTIONING OF EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL SECTION OF THE SYSTEMS PREVALENT IN THE BODY. ON THE CONTRARY, IF THE ACCURATE FUNCTIONING THEREOF WAS DISTURBED BY THE CARELESS OR MISTAKEN ATTITUDE OF HUMAN BEING, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN NECESSARY TO RECTIFY THE HUMAN ERROR TO REMOVE ITS ILL-EFFECTS SO THAT THE SECTION OF THE BODY STARTS FUNCTIONING AS IT WAS SET TO PERFORM BY THE SUPREME CREATOR -8- OTHERWISE MANY TIMES THE LIFE OF THE PERSON CONCERNED FALLS INTO PRECARIOUS SITUATION. GO ON THINKING DEEPLY ON EACH AND EVERY TYPE OF CREATION AND YOU WILL FIND ABSOLUTE PERFECTNESS IN ITS CREATIVE FUNCTIONS, EFFECTS AND EVERY ASPECT YOU MAY THINK OF, UNLESS SOME HUMAN OR EXTERNAL FORCE HAS TRIED TO TAMPER WITH IT BECAUSE OF HUMAN CARELESSNESS OR LACK OF REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE. EVERY TYPE OF PLANT, SHRUB, TREE, GRASS ETC. HAS DIFFERENT FUNCTION IN THIS UNIVERSE. SIMILARLY EVERY TYPE OF INSECT AND ANIMAL HAS IMPORTANCE AND FUNCTIONS OF ITS OWN WHICH THE OTHER TYPE WOULD NOT PERFORM. ALL THESE CONSIDERATIONS MORE THAN PROVE LOGICALLY THAT ALLAH S.W.T. IS JUST (I.E. JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T.)

IF ANYONE EVEN DOUBTS ABOUT JUSTICE OF ALLAH HE BECOMES DISBELIEVER AND HIS PLACE OF ETERNAL ABODE IS HELL. SO CONSIDER THE FATE OF THOSE WHO (NOT ONLY DOUBT, BUT) DO NOT BELIEVE IN HIS JUSTICE. UNLESS THEY SINCERELY AND FROM THE DEPTH OF THEIR BOSOMS AND WHOLE-HEARTEDLY CRAVE FROM HIM FOR HIS FORGIVENESS AND TRUTHFULLY ACCEPT AND BELIEVE IN HIS JUSTICE, THEY HAVE PLACED THEMSELVES AS PERMANENT FIREWOODS OF THE HELL. NOW WE COME TO THE QUESTION ASKED IN THE FOUNDATION BOOKLET OF THIS SERIES, WHICH WE PROMISED TO REPLY LOGICALLY WITHIN THIS SERIES. SINCE THIS BOOKLET EXPLAINS ABOUT HIS JUSTICE IT WILL BE OPPORTUNE TO REPLY IT NOW. THE QUESTION RAISED WAS THAT WHEN ALLAH S.W.T. IS JUST, WHY WE FIND SEVERAL DIFFERENT STATUS WITHIN HUMAN BEINGS? WHY ALL ARE NOT OF ONE STATUS? IS THIS JUSTICE? THE STRAIGHT ANSWER TO THIS IS - "YES, IT IS ABSOLUTE JUSTICE." NOW WE GO TO PROVE THIS BY LOGICAL EXAMPLE, BUT BEFORE DOING SO, WE SHALL QUOTE THE WORDS OF AMEERUL MU'AMENEEN HAZRAT ALI IBN ABITALIB A.S. - THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS. HE SAYS : "PEOPLE ARE IN COMFORT DUE TO DIFFERENCE (IN STATUS); IF ALL BECOME EQUAL, THE RESULT WILL BE CHAOS" THAT MEANS THAT THIS WORLD WILL NOT BECOME HABITABLE. TO MAKE A PLACE HABITABLE, WE NEED TO BUILD A HOUSE WITH WALLS WHICH WILL SAVE US FROM THE BLOWING HOT AND COLD WINDS AND ALSO HARMFUL ANIMALS, ROBBERS AND MANY OTHER ILLS AND WILL PROTECT OUR HEALTH, PROPERTY AND LIVES. IT WILL ALSO GIVE US COMFORTABLE LIVING. LET US SUPPOSE THAT WE APPOINT YOU AS OUR CONTRACTOR TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR US. WHAT WILL YOU DO? -9- YOU WILL PUT A FOUNDATION AND RAISE THE PILLARS. THESE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO LIVE IN. FOR THE HOUSE TO BECOME HABITABLE YOU WILL HAVE TO BUILD - RAISE - WALLS ON THE OUTSIDE AS WELL AS INSIDE. THEN ONLY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PLACE A ROOF ON TOP. IN ORDER TO RAISE THE WALLS, YOU WILL BRING BRICKS AND START LAYING THEM IN THE BOTTOM LINE FROM ONE PILLAR TO THE OTHER ONE, AND PUT A STRONG PLASTER OF CEMENT BETWEEN THEM AS WELL AS AT THEIR BOTTOMS AND TOP TO LEASH THEM OR UNITE THEM STRONGLY. WHEN THE BOTTOM LINE IS COMPLETE YOU WILL START PUTTING BRICKS ON TOP OF THE BOTTOM LAYER OF BRICKS AND JOINING THEM WITH CEMENT AS BEFORE. AFTER COMPLETION OF THIS SECOND LAYER YOU WILL START THE THIRD LAYER BY PUTTING THE BRICKS ON THE SECOND LAYER OF BRICKS AND JOINING THEM BY PLASTER. YOU WILL CONTINUE PUTTING ONE LAYER OF BRICKS ON TOP OF THE OTHER UNTIL THE WALL HAS BEEN ERECTED TO THE REQUIRED HEIGHT. ONLY THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PLACE THE ROOF ON TOP AND FIX DOORS AND WINDOWS AT THE APPROPRIATE PLACES WHICH WILL MAKE THE PLACE HABITABLE. WHEN YOU WERE PLACING THE BRICKS IN DIFFERENT LAYERS (NAMELY THE BOTTOM LINE, THE UPPER SECOND LINE, THIRD UPPER AND SO ON) UNTIL YOU PLACED THEM IN TWENTY LAYERS, SUPPOSE I TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE METED OUT GROSS INJUSTICE BY PLACING BRICKS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY SAY, "MY BROTHER, I HAVE DONE ABSOLUTE JUSTICE, BECAUSE WITHOUT PUTTING THEM IN DIFFERENT LAYER (STATUS) IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO RAISE THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE AND THE PLACE WILL NOT BECOME HABITABLE. YOU MAY ASK ME: "HOW DID YOU WANT ME TO DO JUSTICE?" IF I TELL YOU THAT "PLACE ALL THE BRICKS AT ONE LEVEL ONLY - EITHER ALL LOW OR ALL HIGH." YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY START DOUBTING MY SENSES. BUT IN ORDER NOT TO OFFEND ME YOU WILL POLITELY TELL ME, "MY BROTHER, IF I PLACE ALL THE BRICKS AT THE BOTTOM LEVEL, HOW WILL THE WALLS COME UP? AND IF I PLACE ALL OF THEM ON TOP, WHAT IS THERE TO SUPPORT THEM? THEY WILL ALL FALL DOWN AND BREAK AND AGAIN THE WALL WILL NOT BE RAISED. ON THE CONTRARY THERE WILL BE CHAOS - TOTAL LOSS OF LABOUR, MATERIAL (BRICKS) ETC.; AND PLACING THEM BOTH WAYS - WHETHER ENTIRELY UP OR DOWN - NO JUSTICE WILL HAVE BEEN DONE AND NO SENSIBLE RESULT WILL HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED. THEREFORE, CONSIDER SENSIBLY AND LOGICALLY THAT BY PLACING THE BRICKS IN DIFFERENT GRADES - ELEVATIONS - I HAVE DONE THE UTMOST JUSTICE TO EVERYONE. THE TOP LAYERS OF BRICKS ARE IN DIRE NEED OF THE BOTTOM LAYERS, AS WITHOUT THEM THEY WILL NEVER SURVIVE. THE SURVIVAL OF THE TOP LAYERS IS DEPENDENT ON THE BOTTOM LAYERS. SUPPOSE THE BOTTOM LAYER OF THE BRICKS IS REMOVED FROM THE WALL, WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? OBVIOUSLY THE WHOLE WALL WILL COME DOWN CRACKING INTO PIECES. PLEASE KEEP THIS FACT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR VISION AND READ FURTHER. -10- SUPPOSE YOU HAVE TWO TYPES OF BRICKS - ONE TYPE STRONGER THAN THE OTHER. WHICH TYPE OF BRICKS YOU WILL PLACE IN BOTTOM LAYERS AND WHICH ONES ON THE TOP LAYERS? COMMON SENSE DIRECTS THAT THE STRONGER BRICKS WILL BE PUT IN THE BOTTOM LAYERS AS THE BURDEN OF THE WALLS AND THE ROOF ULTIMATELY IS BEING BORNE BY THE BOTTOM LAYERS. AGAIN THE FOUNDATION WHICH IS EVEN BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE IS MUCH STRONGER THAN EVEN STRONGEST LINE OF BRICKS SINCE ULTIMATELY THE ENTIRE BURDEN OF THE WHOLE BUILDING IS BORNE BY THE FOUNDATION. SO THE CONCLUSION IS THAT THE LOWER THE LEVEL THE STRONGER IS THE UNIT COMPRISING THE LEVEL AND IT CARRIES THE BURDEN OF THE UPPER LEVELS. THE SAME IS THE CASE WITH HUMAN BEINGS. LET THE RICH WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES HIGH, AND ARE GENERALLY CONSIDERED HIGH, MUST APPRECIATE AND RESPECT THE LOWER LEVELS AND EVEN THE LOWEST LEVELS BECAUSE THE SURVIVAL OF THE HIGH LEVELS IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE BOTTOM LEVELS. SO ALLAH S.W.T. IS VERY KIND AND EXTREMELY LOVING AND JUST BY CREATING THE LEVEL(S) OF HUMAN BEINGS WHICH IS (ARE) NECESSARY FOR THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE SO CALLED TOP LEVELS: WHETHER THAT LEVEL IS DUE TO RICHES OR OTHER STATUS LIKE THE POSITION IN THE SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT ETC. TO GIVE A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE YOU FIND THAT THE ACTIVITIES OF THAT SECTOR STOPS WHOSE LOW LEVEL WORKERS GO ON STRIKE. THE WHOLE ACTIVITY IS PARALYSED. ALL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES - MOVEMENT OF GOODS FROM PLACE TO PLACE, COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, WHOLESALERS TO CONSUMERS ETC. MANUFACTURING OF GOODS, PRODUCTION OF RAW MATERIAL WHICH BECOMES THE INPUT FOR THE MANUFACTURE, THE MANUFACTURE AND MAINTENANCE OF MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AND IN FACT ALL ACTIVITIES WILL STOP AND THE SO CALLED RICH AND IN POWER WILL FALL CRACKING DOWN IF THE SO CALLED 'LOW LEVEL' WORKERS STOP WORKING. SO THOSE 'IN POWER' AND 'RICH' OR SO CALLED "HIGH LEVELS" MUST REALISE THAT THEIR VERY EXISTENCE AND THE STATUS THEY ARE ENJOYING IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT UPON THE LEVELS THAT THEY CONSIDER AS 'LOWER' AND THEREFORE MUST NOT DESPISE THEM OR CONSIDER THEM LOW OR IGNORE THEM. THEY MUST ALSO AT EVERY SECOND THANK ALLAH S.W.T. FOR HAVING OBLIGED THEM BY CREATING THESE LEVELS ON WHICH THEIR VERY EXISTENCE DEPENDS. SO THE VERY FIRST THING WHICH THEY MUST DO IS TO STOP METING OUT INJUSTICE TOWARDS THESE LEVELS, SINCE THE INJUSTICES OF THIS SO CALLED HIGHER LEVELS HAS BROUGHT ABOUT THE POSITION WHERE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM LACK OF BASIC NEEDS -I.E. FOOD AND SHELTER. THE POVERTY IS BEING BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE INJUSTICES AND TYRANNY OF THESE SO CALLED 'HIGH LEVELS'. THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFULS HAZRAT ALI IBN ABITALIB A.S. HAS SAID THAT WHEN YOU SEE A PERSON SUFFERING FROM LACK OF DIRE NECESSITIES OF LIFE, BE SURE THAT THOSE OTHERS (I.E. THE CATEGORY OF HAVES) HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM HIS RIGHTS (RATHER BEREAVED HIM OF HIS RIGHTS) WHICH ALLAH S.W.T. HAS MADE COMPULSORY ON THEM (THE HAVES ) - I.E. THOSE IN THE HIGH LEVELS. -11- SO YOU WILL INTELLECTUALLY REALISE FROM THE ABOVE DISCUSSION THAT THE LEVELS THAT ALLAH S.W.T. HAS MADE AMONG HUMAN BEINGS AND OTHERS IS HIS SUPREME JUSTICE. AGAIN, HE HAS LEASHED TOGETHER THESE LEVELS IN SUCH A WAY THAT EACH LEVEL IS IN NEED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OF THE SAME LEVEL AS WELL AS OTHER LEVELS OF HUMAN BEINGS AND THE BONDS OF FAMILY, SOCIETY AND SEVERAL OTHERS NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL BONDS ARE ESTABLISHED BY HIM. IT IS ONLY THE HUMAN BEING IN THE HIGHER LEVELS WHO BRINGS IN INJUSTICE GREED AND ALL SORTS OF EVILS BY NOT ADHERING TO THE ORDERS OF THE SUPREME CREATOR. HE THINKS VERY HIGH OF HIMSELF, NOT REALISING THAT HE IS IN THE WEAKEST POSITION AND HIS VERY EXISTENCE AT THAT LEVEL IS DUE TO ALLAH S.W.T.'S MERCY WHO CREATED THE SO CALLED 'LOWER LEVELS' WHO ARE MUCH MUCH STRONGER THAN HIM.. IF THEY ARE MADE TO MOVE AWAY, HE WILL COLLAPSE. INSTEAD OF RESPECTING THESE SO CALLED 'LOWER LEVELS' AND ESPECIALLY THE SO CALLED 'LOWEST LEVEL' HE GOES ON FLAGRANTLY VIOLATING ORDERS OF THE SUPREME CREATOR ALLAH S.W.T… ALLAH S.W.T. HAS ORDAINED THE RIGHTS OF EACH LEVEL OVER THE OTHER LEVEL AND BETWEENTHE INDIVIDUALS OF THE SAME LEVEL ALSO. THIS IS TRUE ISLAM. NOT A SINGLE ASPECT OF THE ENTIRE LIFE IS LEFT UNTOUCHED BY TRUE ISLAM. NOT ONLY THE RIGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS ARE LAID DOWN BUT THE RIGHTS OF THE WHOLE CREATION HAVE BEEN LAID DOWN. THE RIGHTS OF YOUR OWN LIMBS UPON YOU ARE ALSO LAID DOWN AND FOR THIS LOOK UP RISAALATUL HUQOOQ OF THE HOLY FOURTH IMAM HAZRAT ZAINUL AABEDEEN A.S.. IN SUPPORT OF THE RIGHTS OF THE SO CALLED LOWEST CLASS - I.E. POOR PEOPLE - ALLAH S.W.T. HAS ORDAINED IN TORAH (POPULARLY KNOWN AS HADEETH - E - QUDSI) IN SURA NO. 35 AS FOLLOWS: يابن ادم المال مالي والاغنياء وكلائ والفقراء عيالي فمن بخل علي عيالي ادخله النار ولا ابالي "OH SON OF ADAM! ALL PROPERTY (POSSESSIONS, WEALTH ETC.) IS MINE AND THE RICH ARE MY AGENTS AND THE POOR ARE MY DEPENDENTS (FAMILY ETC.), SO ANYONE WHO BECOMES MISER OVER MY DEPENDENTS, I WILL PUT HIM INTO THE FIRE (OF HELL) AND WILL NOT CARE (FOR HIM)."
NOW THINK ON THIS FOR A WHILE SERIOUSLY. ALLAH S.W.T. HAS NO FAMILY YET HE TREATS THE POOR AS HIS DEPENDENTS (FAMILY) WHEREAS THE RICH ARE MERELY HIS AGENTS. WHOM WILL YOU LOVE MORE? YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS OR YOUR AGENTS? SURELY YOUR FAMILY IS FAR SUPERIOR TO YOU THAN YOUR AGENTS WHO GET PAID FOR THE PROPER AND HONESTLY CARRYING OUT OF DUTIES GIVEN TO THEM, WHEREAS YOUR FAMILY ARE MORE OR LESS THE OWNERS OF YOUR PROPERTY. IF THE AGENT DOES NOT CARRY OUT HIS DUTIES ACCORDING TO YOUR INSTRUCTIONS AND EITHER EATS AWAY ANY PORTION OF PROPERTY, GOODS ETC. ENTRUSTED TO HIM FOR GIVING TO PARTICULAR PERSONS IN -12- 3SPECIFIED PROPORTION OR MISAPPROPRIATES IT IN ANYWAY, YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY DISMISS HIM AND PUNISH HIM FOR MISDEMENOURS (MISDEEDS). NOW TELL ME WHO IS MORE NEAR TO GOD, THE RICH OR THE POOR? AGAIN IN THE SAME HOLY BOOK TORAH, ALLAH S.W.T. IN SURA NO. 12 SAYS AS FOLLOWS: ياموسي اسمع ما اقول وا لحق مااقول انه من تكبر علي مسكين حشرته يوم القيمه علي صوره ذ ره تحت اقدام ا لناس MEANING: "O MOSES (MUSA), LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY AND IT IS HAQ (RIGHT) WHAT I SAY. VERILY THE ONE WHO DOES TAKABBUR (CONSIDER ONESELF GREATER - ARROGANCE) OVER THE POOR I WILL RAISE HIM ON THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT IN THE SHAPE OF MOTE (SMALL PARTICLE) UNDER PEOPLE'S FEET." IT WILL BE REALISED, THEREFORE, THAT ALMIGHTY ALLAH S.W.T. HAS GIVEN SUCH A HIGH STATUS TO THE SO CALLED LOWER LEVELS AND IT THEREFORE BEHOVES UPON THOSE WHO ARE CONSIDERED AS HIGH LEVELS TO DEAL RESPECTFULLY AND WITH JUSTICE WITH THE FORMER. IT IS ALSO INCUMBENT UPON THE FORMER TO THANK ALMIGHTY ALLAH S.W.T. FOR HIS BOUNTIES OVER THEM AND NOT TO BE CARRIED AWAY BY THE RICHES OR INFLUENCES OF THE LATTER AND SUPPORT THEIR INJUSTICES. ONLY IN THIS WAY THE LEVEL OF INJUSTICES CAN BE REDUCED AND ELIMINATED IF THE ORDERS OF ALLAH S.W.T. CONVEYED BY HIS APPOINTED HOLY PROPHETS AND HOLY IMAMS ARE RESPECTED AND ADHERED TO. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO OBEY ONLY GOD-APPOINTED PROPHETS AND IMAMS (KHALIFAS OF PROPHET - DULY APPOINTED BY HIM ONLY), AS THESE ARE THE RIGHT GUIDES AND COME IN THIS WORLD WITH SUPER KNOWLEDGE BESTOWED BY ALLAH S.W.T.. OTHERS MAN-APPOINTED OR SELF-APPOINTED HAVE NO DIVINE KNOWLEDGE AND CANNOT GIVE OR IMPART THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE, HOW-SO-EVER KNOWLEDGE THEY MAY HAVE DERIVED IN THIS WORLD. TO DEMONSTRATE THIS, ONE SIMPLE EXAMPLE IS QUOTED BELOW FROM WHICH THE READER WILL BE ABLE TO CONCLUDE THE UNCHALLENGED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE HADITH (TRADITION). كلام ا لامام امام الكلام MEANING: THE SPEECH (WORD-SENTENCE) OF HOLY IMAM IS THE LEADER OF ALL SPEECHES (WORDS, SENTENCES) ONE DAY THE ROMAN EMPEROR OF THE TIME SENT ONE OF HIS ENVOYS TO SYRIA TO ASK FOR THE ANSWER TO SOME COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT QUESTIONS FORM MOAVIYA WHO RULED SYRIA AT THE TIME. WHEN THE ENVOY ASKED THE QUESTIONS TO MOAVIYA, HE COULD NOT REPLY. SO HE ASKED THE LEARNEDS TO ANSWER IT BUT NO ONE COULD DO THAT. SO, HE SECRETLY CALLED THE ENVOY AND PRIVATELY ASKED HIM TO GO TO KUFA (IRAQ) WHERE THE GOD-APPOINTED IMAM HAZRAT ALI A.S. WAS RULING. MOAVIYA ASKED THE -13- ENVOY TO PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE IMAM ALI A.S. AS ONE OF HIS SUBJECTS AND THEN ASK THE QUESTIONS. WHEN THE ENVOY REACHED KUFA, HE WAS TOLD THAT IMAM ALI A.S. HAS GONE TO RAHBA WITH HIS TWO YOUNG SONS NAMELY IMAM HASSAN A.S. AND IMAM HUSAIN A.S. SO HE WENT TO RAHBA AND MET IMAM ALI A.S. AND SAID "I AM YOUR SUBJECT": TO WHICH THE HOLY IMAM REPLIED "YOU ARE NOT MY SUBJECT, YOU ARE LYING." "YOU ARE AN ENVOY OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR AND YOUR EMPEROR HAD SENT YOU TO MOAVIYA TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND HE IN TURN HAS SENT YOU TO ME." TO THIS, THE ENVOY CONFIRMED AND SAID, "O TRUE REPRESENTATIVE OF ISLAM, WHAT YOU SAID IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. NO ONE EXCEPT GOD KNOWS THAT MOAVIYA HAS SENT ME SECRETLY TO YOU, BUT IT IS DUE TO YOUR DIVINE KNOWLEDGE OF IMAMAT (THE TRUE DIVINE REPRESENTATION) THAT YOU HAVE KNOWN THIS STARK FACT. THEN HAZRAT ALI A.S. ASKED HIM TO ASK HIS QUESTIONS TO ANY OF HIS TWO YOUNG SONS - IMAM HASAN A.S. AND IMAM HUSAIN A.S. THE ENVOY DIRECTED HIMSELF TOWARDS IMAM HASAN A.S. AND WAS ABOUT TO ASK THE QUESTIONS WHEN IMAM HASAN A.S. HIMSELF TOLD HIM THAT THESE ARE YOUR QUESTIONS. 1. WHAT IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT (HAQ) AND WRONG (BATIL)? 2. WHAT IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SKY? 3. HOW DISTANT ARE THE EAST AND WEST FROM EACH OTHER? 4. WHAT IS KAWS - E - KOZAH - RAINBOW? 5. (I HAVE ABSTAINED TO COPY THIS QUESTION AND THE ANSWER THEREOF BUT THE READER MAY REFER TO SIRAT-E-A'IMMAH, PAGE 128 FOR THEM.) 6. WHICH ARE THOSE TEN THINGS THAT ARE STRONGER THAN EACH OTHER. TO THIS THE ENVOY CONFIRMED THAT "WHATEVER YOU SAID IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT". THEN IMAM HASAN A.S. SAID "NOW HEAR YOUR ANSWERS". 1. THE DISTANCE AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT (HAQ) AND THE WRONG (BATIL) IS OF FOUR FINGERS. (THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE EYE AND THE EAR). TO A GREAT EXTENT AND MORE SO, WHAT YOU SEE WITH YOUR EYES IS RIGHT AND WHAT YOU HEAR IS WRONG. (WHAT YOU HEAR NEEDS PROOF AND OR ASCERTAINMENT.) 2. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SKY IS THE TIME TAKEN TO REACH THE "SIGH OF THE OPPRESSED" AND "THE REACH OF THE EYESIGHT." 3. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IS THAT WHICH IS COVERED BY THE SUN IN A DAY. -14- 4. IN KAWS-E-KOZAH, KAWS IS OF GOD. IT IS A SIGN OF INCREASE IN RIZK (LIVING) AND FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH IT IS A SIGN OF SAFETY FROM DROWNING. SO WHEN IT APPEARS AT A TIME WHEN THERE IS NO RAIN, IT IS A SIGN FOR THE RAIN AND IF IT APPEARS WHILE IT IS RAINING, IT IS A SIGN OF THE ENDING OF RAIN. 5. (THIS QUESTION AS WELL AS THE ANSWER HAS NOT BEEN REPRODUCED) 6. THE TEN THINGS THAT ARE STRONGER THAN EACH OTHER ARE: (I) GOD HAS CREATED STONE VERY STRONG - BUT (II) IRON IS STRONGER THAN STONE AS IT BREAKS THE STONE; YET (III) FIRE IS STRONGER THAN IRON AS IT MELTS THE IRON, (IV) WATER IS STRONGER THAN FIRE AS IT EXTINGUISHES THE FIRE, BUT (V) CLOUD IS STRONGER THAN WATER AS IT CARRIES WATER ON IT, BUT (VI) AIR IS STRONGER THAN THE CLOUD BECAUSE THE WIND CARRIES HEAVY CLOUDS FROM PLACE TO PLACE (VII) YET THE ANGEL WHO IS APPOINTED OVER AIR IS STRONGER THAN THE AIR BECAUSE THE AIR IS KEPT UNDER CONTROL OF THE ANGEL (VIII) BUT MALEKUL-MAWT - THE ANGEL WHO TAKES AWAY THE SOUL (ROOH) IS STRONGER THAN ALL THE ANGELS AND WHO WILL TAKE AWAY (REMOVE) THE SOUL (ROOH) OF THE ANGEL OF AIR ALSO (IX) BUT DEATH (MAWT) IS STRONGER THAN THE ANGEL OF DEATH WHO TAKES AWAY THE SOULS BECAUSE IT WILL ALSO KILL THE ANGEL OF DEATH, AND (X) THE ORDER OF ALLAH IS STRONGER THAN DEATH WHICH CAN EVEN POSTPONE DEATH. IF ONE PONDERS OVER WHAT IMAM HASAN A.S. SAID MORE THAN 18½ CENTURIES AGO, ONE WOULD FIND OCEANS OF KNOWLEDGE HIDDEN INTO EACH OF HIS STATEMENTS. IN FACT, RESEARCHERS WHO TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION EVEN ONE OF IMAM'S STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL IN MAKING DEVICES THAT SERVE MANKIND TO A GREAT EXTENT, PROOFS OF WHICH WE SEE ALL AROUND US. IF WE LOOK AT THE CHAIN OF STRENGTHS DESCRIBED BY THE HOLY IMAM A.S. WE SEE THAT AFTER NO. (VI) I.E. AIR, THE ANGELS ETC. COME INTO THE CHAIN SO THE SIXTH HIGHER AND STRONGER THING IN THE HIERARCHY IS AIR. SO ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT OF IMAM A.S. AIR IS THE STRONGEST OF ALL THE FIVE BELOW IT; THAT IS EVEN STRONGER THAN STONE AND IRON.

THOSE WHO PONDERED OVER IT, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SOLVE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM. TODAY WE SEE CARS AND TRUCKS IN ABUNDANCE AROUND US WHICH CARRY PEOPLE AND THINGS. YOU FIND TRUCKS EACH CARRYING VERY HEAVY LOADS OF 50, 100 OR MORE TONS OF IRON, STONE AND VARIOUS OTHER ITEMS. ALL THESE ARE CARRIED ON TYRES WHICH IN TURN DEPEND ON THE AIR PRESENT IN THEM. IF THE AIR IN THE TYRES (I.E. TUBES ETC.) DECREASES, THEN THE SPEED AT WHICH THE TRUCK CAN GO IS REDUCED TOO; AND IF THE AIR IS REMOVED COMPLETELY, THE VEHICLE WILL NOT MOVE. OBSERVE HOW SMALL A QUANTITY OF AIR IS PRESENT IN THE TYRES IN COMPARISON TO THE HEAVINESS OF THE TRUCK -15- ITSELF PLUS THE VERY HEAVY LOAD IT CARRIES. ALL THESE LOADS ARE, IN FACT, CARRIED BY THE SMALL QUANTITY OF AIR THAT IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LOAD - I.E. IT CARRIES ALL THAT LOAD. HERE ALSO YOU FIND THE STRONGEST ITEM (THE AIR) AT THE BOTTOM - WHICH CARRIES THE WHOLE LOAD; THE PRINCIPLE AS DISCUSSED BEFORE. SIMILARLY PASSENGER CARS AND BUSES MADE OF IRON AND CARRYING HEAVY LOADS OF PASSENGERS APART FROM THEIR OWN WEIGHTS ARE ALL ON THE SHOULDERS OF AIR. THE AIR IS AT THE BOTTOM AND THE HEAVY LOAD IS AT THE TOP AND IN BETWEEN THERE ARE LAYERS - OR STAGES - (TYRES, FLAT BED FOR KEEPING THE LOAD, SIDE TO PROTECT THEIR FALLING DOWN ETC.) WHICH FORM INTER-CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM. IF AIR (THAT IS THE LOWEST LEVEL) IS REMOVED FROM THE TYRES, THE VEHICLE WILL NOT MOVE SO THE UPPER LAYER THAT IS THE LOAD WILL REMAIN STRANDED AND HELPLESS. SO THOSE WHO WANT THE LOAD TO BE CARRIED FAST AND SAFELY WITH UTMOST EFFICIENCY HAVE TO CARE FOR THE AIR IN THE TYRES. IN THE SAME WAY, HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE CONSIDERED ON HIGHER LEVELS - THAT IS RICH AND WITH POWERS - ARE BOUND TO CARE FOR THE SO CALLED LOWEST LEVELS - THE POORS - OTHERWISE THEY (RICH AND POWERFUL) WILL THEMSELVES FALL INTO CALAMITIES. AS WITHOUT THE STATUS LEVELS STATED ABOVE, THE LOAD CANNOT BE CARRIED SAFELY SO IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STATUS LEVELS WITHIN HUMAN BEINGS WHICH PROVE THE WORDS OF AMIRUL MUAMENEEN HAZRAT ALI A.S. SO THE LEVELS OF STATUS WITHIN HUMAN BEINGS IS ABSOLUTE JUSTICE OF THE ALMIGHTY. HOWEVER, AS THE ALMIGHTY HAS ORDAINED AND AS PROVED LOGICALLY, THE LOWER LEVELS MUST BE CARED FOR. IF THAT IS NOT DONE, IT IS AN OPEN TRANSGRESSION AGAINST THE ALMIGHTY AND THE LOGICAL RULES OF NATURE. THAT IS WHERE WE REALISE THE SAYING OF THE HOLY FIRST IMAM HAZRAT AMEERUL MU'AMENEEN ALI IBN ABITALIB A.S. WHEN HE SAID THAT "WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE WITHOUT FOOD AND SHELTER AND THE BARE NECESSITIES OF LIFE YOU MUST BE SURE THAT THE RICH HAVE USURPED HIS RIGHTS." SO THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH HAS ESTABLISHED THE LEVELS ON THE BASIS OF PURE JUSTICE AND HAS SET THE RULES FOR THEM BUT THE SO CALLED RICH AND POWERFUL OPENLY TRANSGRESS HIS RULES AND ORDERS AND THIS ALSO PROVES THE NECESSITY AND JUSTICE FOR THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. THEREFORE, 'O' RICH AND 'O' POWERFUL! BEWARE! YOU SEEM SO HIGH BUT YOU ARE THE WEAKEST. YOUR ALL BURDENS ARE BEING CARRIED BY THE SO CALLED 'LOW LEVELS'. IF THEY STOP SERVING YOU, (THAT IS STOP CARRYING YOUR ALL TYPES OF BURDENS) THAT DAY YOU WILL COME CRACKING DOWN AND WILL BE DESTROYED. AS IS NECESSARY TO CARE FOR THE AIR IN THE TYRES, THE LOWER LEVEL BRICKS IN A WALL, THE LOWEST FOUNDATION OF LARGEST BUILDING, SO IS IMPERATIVE TO CARE FOR THE SO CALLED 'LOWEST LEVEL' HUMAN BEINGS ON WHOM YOUR VEHICLE OF PROGRESS MOVES. -16- DO NOT MAKE THEM BEGGARS, SET FOR THEM SOME KIND OF ACTIVITIES WHERE THEY LEARN TO WORK AND EARN AND PROVIDE THEM INCENTIVES FOR THEIR PROGRESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR EFFORTS, SO THAT THEY BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT AND LEARN TO STAND ON THEIR OWN FEET FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES. TEACH THEM HOW TO PROGRESS. DO NOT BE AFRAID THAT TOMORROW THEY WILL COME UP AND SEE EYE TO EYE WITH YOU. YOUR SUCH EFFORTS WILL BE REWARDED MANIFOLDS BY THE SUPREME ALMIGHTY, FOR WHOSE PLEASURE AND OBEDIENCE YOU SHOULD DO THIS. THE REWARD THAT YOU WILL BE BESTOWED WITH WILL BE UN-IMAGINABLY GREATEST IN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT. RATHER THAN EXPECTING THANKS AND PRAISES FROM HUMAN BEINGS WHICH CARRY NO REWARD AND ARE PERISHED, WHY NOT EARN EXORBITANT AND EVERLASTING REWARD? AS A FURTHER EXAMPLE, THINK OF THE FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN BODY AND THE UN-COUNTABLE ACTIVITIES TAKING PLACE WITHIN THIS BODY AT EVERY SECOND. IN OUR EYES, THE BONES ARE THE STRONGEST , SECOND IS THE FLESH AND THEN THE BLOOD. BUT WITHOUT BLOOD NEITHER THE FLESH CAN DEVELOP OR SURVIVE NOR THE BONES. HOWEVER, HERE ALSO WE SEE 'AIR' TO BE ABOVE ALL. WITHOUT AIR NO BLOOD WILL BE PRODUCED NOR ANYTHING IN THE BODY WILL FUNCTION AND DEVELOP. IF A BREATH OF AIR STOPS, THE MAN IS DEAD. THE AIR ON WHICH HUMAN, ANIMAL, PLANT AND LIFE AS A WHOLE DEPENDS, HAS ALSO BEEN BALANCED SO PERFECTLY AND THE BALANCE MAINTAINED BY THE ALMIGHTY SO THAT EACH AND EVERY THINKABLE CREATION IS BENEFITING IN THE WAY IT IS SET TO DO HOW MOST PERFECT IS THE SET UP OF CREATION, ITS LEVELS, ITS SURVIVAL, ITS DEVELOPMENT THAT NO HUMAN SENSE CAN PERFECTLY ABSORB COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF EVEN ONE SUBSTANCE OF THE UNCOUNTABLE AND UNIMAGINABLE NUMBER OF THE CREATED ITEMS. THEY HAVE BEEN SET AT THE MOST PERFECT STAGES BY THE ALMIGHTY, WITH MOST PERFECT CONSTITUENTS, FUNCTIONS, SET-UP ETC. THIS IS THE ASPECT OF JUSTICE OF ALMIGHTY, WHERE EVERY IMAGINABLE ATOM HAS BEEN MOST PERFECTLY CREATED AND PLACED AT THE MOST APPROPRIATE STAGE AND DISCHARGES MOST PERFECT FUNCTION AT MOST APPROPRIATE TIME ORDAINED BY THE SUPREME ALMIGHTY. NOW WHAT HAPPENS IF SOMEONE 'DOES NOT BELIEVE OR EVEN 'SLIGHTLY DOUBTS' IN ALLAH'S JUSTICE? ANY SENSIBLE PERSON WILL REPLY THAT 'HE IS TRANGRESSOR AGAINST ALMIGHTY ALLAH AND THEREFORE TERMED AS KAFIR! EVEN IF SOMEONE MAKES A STATEMENT THAT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THAT IS EXPRESSLY OR IMPLIEDLY, INCORPORATES ANY SHADOW OF INJUSTICE TOWARDS THE SUPREME ALMIGHTY BECOMES KAFIR. 'ADL' I.E. JUSTICE IS INTELLECTUALLY BY ITS VERY NATURE RIGHT, GOOD AND REWARDING QUALITY, WHEREAS INJUSTICE IS WRONG, BAD, HATEFUL AND PUNISHABLE QUALITY. -17- WHEN WE CANNOT IN REALITY DEFINE THE JUSTICE WITH WHICH HE HAS CREATED ITEMS THAT WE SEE AROUND US - THAT IS THE CREATED ONES - HOW CAN ONE DEFINE HIS JUSTICE AS IT SHOULD BE? AS RESEARCHES GO ON TAKING PLACE, NEW FACTS COME TO LIGHT WHICH SINK HUMAN TALENTS INTO DEEP WONDERS. HOWEVER, THIS FACT WAS PRESENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND YEARS AGO BUT THIS HUMAN BEING WAS UNAWARE OF ITS EXISTANCE, LET ALONE ITS CONSTITUENTS ETC. WITH WHICH HE IS ILLITERATE EVEN TODAY. SO WE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT JUSTICE OF ALLAH IS AN INSEPARABLE MOST IMPORTANT BELIEF FROM HIS EXISTENCE - I.E. TAUHEED. IT IS AMONG THE BELIEFS I.E. USOOL - E - DEEN AND NOT A PART OF FUROO - E - DEEN WHICH CONSIST OF COMPULSORY ACTIONS. NOW LET US TAKE VERY SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE ONE WHO MAKES A STATEMENT IMPLYING INJUSTICE BY THE SUPREME CREATOR, AND THIS IS THE REAL CAUSE OF TURNING INTO A KAFIR. IT IS NORMALLY STATED BY THE RELIGIOUS LECTURERS THAT SATAN (SHAITAAN - DEVIL) WAS THROWN OUT AS "KAFIR" BY ALMIGHTY ALLAH S.W.T. BECAUSE OF ONLY ONE SAJDA (PROSTRATION). HOWEVER, REKNOWN ISLAMIC SCHOLAR, ALLAMA HILLI CONTENDS THIS AND FORWARDS SOME SENSIBLE AND LOGICAL ARGUMENTS AS GIVEN HEREAFTER. BEFORE GOING FURTHER, IT MUST BE CLARIFIED WHAT HE STATES . HE STATES THAT IT IS NOT THE 'SAJDA' BUT THE REASONS - I.E. THE BACKGROUND BEHIND NOT DOING THE SAJDA THAT HAS MADE HIM KAFIR. HE CONTENDS THAT IF YOU SAY THAT IT WAS ONLY ONE SAJDA THEN YOU ARE IMPLYING THAT THE BASICS OF GOD'S RELIGION ARE AND CAN BE ALTERED AND THIS IS ENTIRELY WRONG. FIRST OF ALL, ACCORDING TO ALL MUSLIMS, SAJDA IS PART OF PRAYERS - THAT IS TO SAY THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH ORDERS OF ALMIGHTY UPON WHICH ONE MUST ACT - MEANING: IT IS PART OF COMPULSORY ACTIONS WHICH ARE TERMED AS FUROO - E - DEEN. BELIEF IS USOO - E - DEEN - I.E. FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM. IF SOMEONE BELIEVES IN ISLAM AND BELIEVES IN NAMAAZ (I.E. SALAAT OR PRAYERS) BUT IS SLIGHTLY LAZY IN PERFORMING NAMAAZ, HE IS PUNISHABLE BUT DOES NOT BECOME KAFIR. BUT SUPPOSE HE PERFORMS NAMAAZ BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE IT TO BE COMPULSORY ORDER OF ALLAH S.W.T. THEN HE BECOMES KAFIR - BECAUSE HIS BELIEF IS NOT RIGHT. THIS PROVES THAT ANY SHORTCOMINGS IN FUROO - E - DEEN (COMPULSORY ACTIONS) DOES NOT MAKE ANYONE KAFIR BUT ANY SHORTCOMING IN USOOL - E - DEEN (BELIEFS) MAKES ONE DEFINITELY KAFIR.
LET US TAKE ANOTHER EXAMPLE: SUPPOSE A MUSLIM ALWAYS OFFER PRAYERS I.E. NAMAAZ BUT HE DID NOT OFFER AND EVEN REPAY ONE MORNING PRAYER ONLY. HOW MANY SAJDAS HE DID NOT DO? THE ANSWER IS 'FOUR'. SHAITAN DID NOT DO ONE SAJDA WHEREAS THIS MAN HAS NOT DONE FOUR SAJDAS. (I.E. 2 SAJDAS IN EACH OF THE TWO RAKAATS). THE SAJDAS THAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO PERFORM IS ALSO THE COMPULSORY ORDER OF ALLAH S.W.T.. NOW WHO DID NOT CARRY OUT MORE ORDERS OF ALLAH S.W.T.? OF COURSE, THE ONE WHO DID NOT DO 4 SAJDAS. CAN YOU TERM THIS MAN "A KAFIR?" SURELY NOT! (EVEN IF HE HAS NOT PERFORMED MORE THAN 4 SAJDAS) Q. AND IF HE DIES, WHAT BECOMES COMPULSORY ON YOU? A. TO GIVE HIM GHUSL (BATH), KAFAN (COFFIN) AND BURY HIM AS A MUSLIM (AND NOT AS KAFIR). THIS AGAIN PROVES THAT IT IS NOT SIMPLY THE ACTION OR PERFORMANCE OF SAJDA THAT MAKES A MAN KAFIR. LET US TAKE A THIRD EXAMPLE: SUPPOSE A MAN WAS A KAFIR. HE STARTED BELIEVING IN THE RIGHT ISLAM AND EMBRACED ISLAM AND EEMAAN AT 8:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING. HE RECITED KALEMAH OF EEMAAN. HOWEVER, HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO PRAY. HE HAS NEVER PRAYED AND DOES NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO PRAY ACCORDING TO ISLAM: I.E. HE HAS NOT PERFORMED EVEN ONE SAJDA (PROSTRATION) NOR DOES HE KNOW HOW TO DO SAJDA. HE BECAME A MUSLIM - EMBRACED ISLAM AT 8:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING AND SUPPOSE HE DIED AT 10:00 A.M. THE SAME DAY: I.E. HE HAS NOT PERFORMED EVEN ONE SAJDA NOR DOES HE KNOW IT SO FAR. DESPITE HIS HAVING NOT PERFORMED EVEN ONE SAJDA NOR KNOWING IT, WHAT ORDER OF ALLAH S.W.T. IS COMPULSORY ON YOU? IT IS THE SAME AS GIVEN EARLIER: THAT IS GIVE HIM GHUSL, KAFAN AND BURY HIM AS A MUSLIM SO IT AGAIN PROVES THAT MERE NOT PERFORMING SAJDA DOES NOT TURN ANYONE TO KAFIR. AS WE HAVE SEEN EARLIER, IT IS THE DEFICIENCY IN BELIEF (I.E. USOOL - E - DEEN) THAT TURNS A PERSON INTO A MUSLIM, MO'AMIN OR KAFIR. NOW WE SEE IN THE HOLY QURAAN (SURATUL BAQARAH - 2ND SURA - AYAT (VERSE) NO. 34) WHERE ALLAH S.W.T. HAS SAID: واذ قلنا للملاكه اسجد و الا د م فسجد وا الا ابليس ابي واستكبر وكان من ا لكافرين "AND WHEN WE SAID TO THE ANGELS "PROSTRATE YE BEFORE ADAM" THEY ALL PROSTRATED EXCEPT IBLIS, HE REFRAINED (ABHORRED, REFUSED) AND HE SHOWED ARROGANCE AND WAS TURNED INTO ONE OF THE DISBELIEVERS (KAFIRS)" -19- THE QUESTION ARISES "HOW ALLAH S.W.T. SAYS THAT HE (THE SHAITAAN) TURNED INTO KAFIR. IF WE SLIGHTLY LOOK INTELLIGENTLY AT THE VERSE, IT WILL BE VERY CLEAR THAT BEFORE TERMING SHAITAN AS "KAFIR", ALLAH HAS CLEARLY MENTIONED TWO VERY IMPORTANT BASIC REASONS FOR NOT PROSTRATING: 1. HE REFRAINED (ABHORRED, REFUSED) 2. HE SHOWED ARROGANCE. ALLAH S.W.T. DID NOT SAY THAT HE (THE SATAN) DID NOT PROSTRATE AND IMMEDIATELY BECAME KAFIR, BUT INSTEAD ALLAH S.W.T. CLEARLY STATES THE TWO BASIC REASONS BEFORE TERMING SHAITAN AS "KAFIR". SO THIS AGAIN CONVINCES US THAT IT IS NOT THE "ACTION" ONLY BUT IT IS THE "REASONS" BEHIND THE ACTION THAT HAS MADE SHAITAN TURN INTO A 'DISBELIEVER' 'KAFIR'. THAT IS THE BELIEFS BEHIND THE ACTION ARE THE REAL CAUSE. LET US SEEK FURTHER GUIDANCE FROM ALLAH S.W.T. AS REGARDS THE EXPLANATION OF THE TWO REASONS STATED ABOVE AND WE WILL BE GUIDED TO REFER TO THE FIRST PART OF VERSE NO. 12 OF SURA - E - A'ARAAF (SURA CHAPTER NO. 7, PART (SEPARA) NO. 8) ALLAH S.W.T. DID NOT LEAVE THE MATTER CONFINED, BUT WANTED IT DECLARED UNEQUIVOCALLY BY SATAN HIMSELF SO HE ASKED HIM (AS STATED IN THE SAID VERSE): قال ما منعك الاتسجد اذ امرتك MEANING: HE (ALLAH S.W.T.) SAID, “WHAT PREVENTETH YOU THAT YOU DID NOT PROSTRATE WHEN I (GOD) COMMANDED YOU?” NOW UNDERSTAND CAREFULLY THE SATAN'S REPLY WHICH IS GIVEN IN THE SECOND PART OF THE SAME VERSE. THE SATAN SAID: قال انا خيرمنه خلقتني من نار و خلقته من طين MEANING: HE (THE SATAN) SAID, "I AM BETTER THAN HIM (ADAM), THOU HAST CREATED ME OF FIRE WHILE THOU HAST CREATED HIM (ADAM) OF CLAY" (PLEASE ALSO REFER TO VERSES 75, 76, 77 AND 78 OF SURA - E - SAAD - CHAPTER (SURA) NO. 38, PART (SEPARA) 23 - AS A FURTHER DEMONSTRATION OF THE CLARIFICATION AND UNEQUIVOCAL DECLARATION BY SHAITAN - DEVIL). THIS AMPLY CLARIFIES THE INNER FEELINGS OF DIVERSION OF BELIEF BY SHAITAN (DEVIL). -20- HE SAID THAT I AM BETTER THAN ADAM, WHICH CLEARLY AND DOUBTLESSLY IMPLIES THAT SATAN TRIES TO TRANSGRESS THE BELIEF IN JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. BECAUSE IF HE (THE SATAN) WAS BETTER (SUPERIOR) THAN ADAM (A.S.) THEN ALLAH S.W.T.( BY ASKING SATAN TO PROSTRATE BEFORE ADAM A.S.) HAS TRIED TO PLACE THE SUPERIOR (SATAN HIMSELF) UNDER THE INFERIOR (MEANT BY HIM AS ADAM A.S.) NOW PLACING A SUPERIOR UNDER AN INFERIOR IS CONTRARY TO JUSTICE: THAT IS TO SAY THAT IT IS INJUSTICE. SO THIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED THAT THE DOUBT OR NON-BELIEF IN JUSTICE (ADL) OF ALLAH S.W.T.(BY SHAITAAN) AT EVEN ONE POINT HAS TURNED SATAN INTO KAFIR. THIS IS THEREFORE THE EXPLANATION OF POINT NO. 1 "HE REFRAINED (ABHORRED)" OF VERSE 34 OF SURAT - UL - BAQARAH) GIVEN ABOVE. BEFORE GOING FURTHER ON THE TOPIC OF BELIEF IN JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. LET US GIVE VERY SHORT EXPLANATION ON THE SECOND POINT OF THE SAID VERSE, BECAUSE MORE EXPLICIT EXPLANATION OF IT WILL BE GIVEN IN THEBOOKLET ON "IMAMAT" BUT FOR THE TIME BEING WE MUST UNDERSTAND AT LEAST PART OF IT AND RETAIN THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN OUR BOSOMS. THE SECOND POINT IS "HE SHOWED ARROGANCE:" THAT IS TO SAY THAT SHAITAN SHOWED ARROGANCE SO HE BECAME KAFIR. THIS IS THE SECOND REASON OF HIS BECOMING KAFIR. WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT TYPE OF ARROGANCE TURNS A PERSON FROM A BELIEVER TO A KAFIR. WE SEE ALL AROUND US SO MANY MUSLIMS WHO ARE ARROGANT - LEAVE ASIDE NON-MUSLIMS. YET WE CANNOT TERM THESE MUSLIMS AS 'KAFIRS'. SO LET US FIND OUT WHAT SORT OF ARROGANCE SHAITAN DID AS RESLUT OF WHICH HE BECAME KAFIR. FOR THIS, WE WILL QUOTE THE FIRST PART OF VERSE NO. 30 OF SURAT - UL - BAQARAH SURA (CHAPTER 2), WHERE ALLAH S.W.T. HAS SAID. واذ قال ربك للمليكه اني جاعل في الارض خليفه MEANING: (RECOLLECT O' OUR APOSTLE MUHAMMAD) WHEN THY LORD SAID UNTO ANGELS: "VERILY I AM TO APPOINT VICEGERENT (KHALIFA) IN THE EARTH." IN ARABIC جعل (JA'AL) MEANS 'TO PLACE' 'TO INSTAL' 'TO EFFECT' 'TO UNDERTAKE' 'TO PUT UPON' ETC. AND THE VERB جاعل (JA’AILUN) CONVEYS A SENSE OF PERPETUALITY - THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF PRESENT AND FUTURE. -21- IN THIS VERSE, THEREFORE ALLAH S.W.T. AMPLY CLARIFIES THAT THE RIGHT TO APPOINT A KHALIFA - VICEGERENT - IS OF ALLAH S.W.T. ONLY AND HIS VICEGERENTS (KHALIFAS) ARE TO BE APPOINTED ONLY BY HIM THROUGH HIS ORDERS AND NO ONE ELSE.

SECONDLY, IT BECOMES QUITE CLEAR THAT HAZRAT ADAM A.S. WAS GOD-APPOINTED KHALIFA. SO NOW LET US REVERT TO WHAT SHAITAN DID. HE SAID TO ALLAH S.W.T. THAT HE IS BETTER THAN H. ADAM A.S.: THAT IS TO SAY THAT HE CONSIDERED HIMSELF SUPERIOR TO GOD-APPOINTED KHALIFA (VICEGERENT). THIS IS THE TYPE OF ARROGANCE THAT TURNS A BELIEVER INTO KAFIR. SO EVERYONE MUST KEEP FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN ONE'S CONSCIENCE THAT "ANYONE WHO CONSIDSERS HIMSELF SUPERIOR THAN GOD-APPOINTED KHALIFA BECOMES A KAFIR." SO THE TWO REASONS WHY SHAITAN BECAME KAFIR ARE: 1. DOUBTING OR NOT BELIEVING IN THE JUSTICE (ADL) OF ALLAH S.W.T. - AND - 2. CONSIDERING ONE-SELF (OR ANYONE) BETTER THAN GOD-APPOINTED KHALIFA. IT MUST BE REALISED THAT SHAITAN BELIEVED IN ALLAH S.W.T. AND PRAYED AND PROSTRATED TO HIM IN SUCH A WAY THAT HE WAS REWARDED WITH HIGH STATUS TO BE AMONG THE ANGELS. HE ALSO BELIEVED IN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT SINCE AFTER BEING DECLARED KAFIR, AFTER BEING DRIVEN OUT AND CURSED (LAA'NAT) HE CRAVED TO ALLAH S.W.T. FOR RESPITE UP TO THE DAY WHEN EVERYONE WILL BE RAISED - I.E. THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. THIS IS CLEARLY STATED IN VERSE NO. 79 OF SURAT - UL - SAAD (CHAPTER 38, PART 23). HE ALSO BELIEVED ABOUT PROPHETS SINCE WHEN HE OBTAINED RESPITE FROM ALLAH S.W.T. AS STATED IN VERSES 80 AND 81 OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED SURAT - UL - SAAD, HE THEN SAID TO ALLAH S.W.T. ON OATH OF ALLAH S.W.T. THAT HE WILL MISGUIDE EVERYONE "EXCEPT ALLAH S.W.T.'S SERVANTS WHO ARE MUKHLASEEN". ALLAH S.W.T. CLEARLY WARNED SHAITAN IN THE SAME SURA - VERSE 85,: "CERTAINLY, I WILL FILL HELL WITH THEE AND WITH ALL THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEE". SO WE COME TO THE LOGIC CONCLUSION THAT DOUBTING OR NOT BELIEVING IN JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. I.E. (ADL) TURNS ONESELF TO KAFIR AND THE PLACE OF ABODE FOR SUCH PERSON IS HELL. AGAIN, DISBELIEF IN GOD-APPOINTED KHALIFA OR CONSIDERING THEM INFERIOR ALSO TURNS A BELIEVER INTO KAFIR AND AGAIN HIS PLACE OF ABODE IS HELL. AND WHO-SO-EVER FOLLOWS ANYONE WHO HAS ANY OF THESE SHORTCOMINGS IN BELIEF IS AMONG THOSE WHO FOLLOW SHAITAN AND THEIR ABODE IS HELL. AGAIN HE BECOMES ENTITLED TO THE CURSE (LAA'NAT) FORM ALLAH S.W.T.. WE LOGICALLY OBSERVED, THAT -22- IT IS THE TRANSGRESSION IN 'BELIEF' - I.E. USOOL - E - DEEN THAT TURNS A PERSON FROM BELIEVER TO KAFIR. SO IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT ADL - JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. IS INSEPARABLE PART OF USOOL - E- DEEN AND NOT AMONG FUROO - E - DEEN. THOSE WHO CONSIDER IT AS PART OF FUROO - E - DEEN ARE MAKING VERY GRAVE MISTAKE WHICH IN TURN WOULD DRAG THEM UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE WARNING ALLAH S.W.T. GAVE TO SHAITAN IN THE SAID VERSE 85 OF SURAT - UL - SAAD. WE MUST REALISE THAT JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. IS NOT CONFINED. NOW THOSE WITH INTELLECT ARE INVITED TO TAKE EVEN ONE CREATION AMONG INNUMERABLE CREATIONS WE SEE AROUND US AND START PONDERING OVER IT., - I.E. STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, DEVELOPMENT, BENEFITS ETC. - AND THEY WILL FIND WONDERS AND OCEANS OF KNOWLEDGE OPENING UP TO THEM. PLANT FIVE OR MORE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SEEDS OF FLOWERS - MIXED - IN ONE PLACE, YOU WILL NOT FIND EVEN ONE OF IT PRODUCING DIFFERENT COLOUR OF FLOWER THAN IT IS SUPPOSED TO PRODUCE, OR EVEN GROW DIFFERENT TYPE OF PLANT IN STRUCTURE, DEVELOPMENT,FUNCTIONS, BENEFITS, LIFE, OR ANY ASPECT OF IT, OR INCORPORATE THE MIXTURE OF THE EFFECTS ETC. OF THE SEEDS AND THEIR PLANTS WHICH ARE GROWN EXACTLY BY THEIR SIDES. ALTHOUGH, MAN DOES NOT OR HAS NOT REALISED SO FAR, EACH AND EVERY CREATION OF ALLAH S.W.T., WHETHER VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE, FELT OR UNFELT, REALISED OR UNREALISED BY HUMAN SENSES, VISIONS OR POWERS, HAS TREMENDOUS BENEFITS FOR HUMAN BEINGS. ALL SUCH CREATIONS ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY IN QUALITY, QUANTITY, SHAPE, CONTENTS, EFFECTS AND ALL THINKABLE ASPECTS. WHEN HUMAN BEING DOES NOT KNOW FULLY EVEN PART OF THE CREATION OF ALLAH S.W.T. AND EVEN DOES NOT EXACTLY KNOW THE STRUCTURE, DEVELOPMENT, FUNCTIONS ETC. OF THE PART OF CREATION WHICH HE SEES WITH HIS OWN EYES, HOW CAN HE REALISE THE BENEFITS THEREOF, LET ALONE THE WHOLE CREATION? HE CANNOT EVEN SLIGHTLY ASSESS THE JUSTICE PLACED WITHIN PART OF THE CREATION, HOW CAN HE ASSESS THE JUSTICE PLACED AMONG THE WHOLE CREATION WITH WHICH HE IS TOTALLY IGNORANT. THEN HOW CAN HE FULLY REALISE THE JUSTICE OF THE CREATOR WHEN HE IS NOT ABLE EVEN TO ASSESS THE JUSTICE ENDOWED BY THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH S.W.T. AMONG VERY SMALL PORTION OF HIS CREATION? ONE MORE THING ABOUT AIR WHICH IMAM HASAN A.S. SAID (IN HIS CHILDHOOD DAYS) THAT IT IS STRONGER THAN CLOUDS THAT CARRY WATER WITH THEM. PERHAPS MANY AMONG US HAVE NOT THOUGHT OVER IT AND WE DO NOT THINK OVER THE VERSES OF THE HOLY QURAAN EVEN. WHEN IMAM A.S. SAID THAT THE CLOUDS CARRY WATER WITH THEM WE TOOK IT AS A NORMAL STATEMENT; BUT WHEN WE PONDER UPON IT, WE GET OCEANS OF KNOWLEDGE HIDDEN THEREIN. -23- HOWEVER, IF YOU REFER TO VERSE NO. 12 OF SURAT - UR - RAAD - (CHAPTER (SURA) 13, PART 13) ALLAH S.W.T. SAYS: هو ا لذي يريكم البرق خوفا وطمعا وينشي السحاب الثقال MEANING: "HE IT IS WHO SHOWETH YOU THE LIGHTNING CAUSING FEAR AND HOPE AND HE RAISETH THE HEAVY (LADEN) CLOUDS." AT THIS JUNCTURE WE DO NOT WISH TO EXPLAIN THE FIRST PART OF THE VERSE BUT WE WILL ONLY REFER YOU TO THE EARLIER PART OF THIS BOOKLET WHERE IT HAS BEEN MENTIONED THAT DUE TO LIGHTNING APART FROM PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BETWEEN 10 MILLION TO 2 BILLION VOLTS PER SECOND AT LEAST 10 MILLION TONS OF NITROGEN GAS IS PRODUCED PER ANNUM. HOWEVER, HERE WE ARE CONCERNED WITH THE SECOND PORTION OF THE VERSE WHEREIN ALLAH S.W.T. SAYS THAT "HE RAISETH HEAVY (LADEN) CLOUDS" THIS SUPPORTS THE STATEMENT OF IMAM A.S. WHEN HE SAID THAT THE AIR CARRIES HEAVY CLOUDS. LET US THINK PRACTICALLY OVER THIS AND FIND OUT HOW HEAVY THESE CLOUDS ARE. WE NORMALLY OBSERVE THAT WHEN IT RAINS, THE EXPERTS SAY THAT THERE WAS 3 OR 4 INCHES OF RAIN IN SUCH AND SUCH CITY TODAY. LET US ASSUME THAT A SMALL TOWN OF 10 KILOMETRE LENGTH AND 10 KM WIDTH GOT ONLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN. THE REST OF THE CLOUDS WERE CARRIED AWAY BY THE WIND. THIS MEANS THAT THE AREA OF 10 KM X 10 KM IS FILLED WITH 2 INCHES OF RAIN MUCH OF IT HAS BEEN ABSORBED IN THE EARTH. LET US MEASURE THE HEAVINESS OF THE CLOUDS FROM WHICH THE RAIN CAME DOWN - NOT COUNTING THAT PORTION FROM WHICH RAIN DID NOT COME DOWN AND WERE CARRIED AWAY. 2 KILOMETERS = 2000 METRES = 200,000 CMS. (LENGTH) (WIDTH) 2 KMS X 2 KMS = 40,000,000,000 SQ. CMS. (HEIGHT) 2 INCHES = 2 X 2.4 = 4.8 CMS. NOW TAKING THE VOLUME OF THE RAINFALL WE GET: LENGTH WIDTH HEIGHT 200,000 CMS X 200,000 CMS X 4.8 CMS = 192,000,000,000 CUBIC CENTIMETRES (C.C.) -24- NOW WE KNOW THAT 1 C.C. OF WATER WEIGHS 1 GRAM THEREFORE THE ABOVE PRODUCT IS CONSIDERED AS 192,000,OOO,OOO GRAMS OF WATER. NOW CONTINUE WITH THE CALCULATION GIVEN BELOW. 1000 GRAMS = 1 KG. AND 1000 KGS. = 1 TON THEREFORE REMOVING 6 ZEROS THAT IS DIVIDING THE ABOVE C.C. BY 1,000,000 TO TURN IT INTO TONS WE GET 192,000 TONS OF WATER WHICH THESE CLOUDS CARRIED WITH THEM THAT RAINED HERE, PLUS THE WEIGHT OF WATER THAT WAS CARRIED AWAY WITH THE CLOUDS. IF WE CONSIDER THAT HALF OF WHAT WAS CARRIED RAINED HERE THEN THE LOAD CARRIED BY 10 KM X 10 KM CLOUDS IS 384,000 TONS. NOW CONSIDER HOW MANY MILLION TONS OF WEIGHT THESE CLOUDS CARRY WHEN WE NORMALLY SEE THE WHOLE SKY FILLED WITH CLOUDS! AGAIN, THINK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE REQUIRED TO PUSH SLOWLY AN EMPTY TRUCK WHICH IS CAPABLE OF CARRYING A TEN TON LOAD? NOW ESTIMATE YOURSELF THE STRENGTH NEEDED TO CARRY THESE CLOUDS AND THE STRENGTH NEEDED TO PUSH THEM SO FAST. SO YOU MUST BEAR IN MIND THAT A GOD-APPOINTED IMAM IS BORN ENDOWED BY ALLAH S.W.T. WITH DIVINE KNOWLEDGE AND IS BORN AN IMAM. HE IS IMAM AT BIRTH, DURING CHILDHOOD AS WELL AS WHEN GROWN UP. THEN AND THEN ONLY HE IS THE TRUE REPRESENTATIVE (KHALIFA) APPOINTED BY ALLAH S.W.T. YOU WILL HAVE REALISED BY IMAM A.S.'S STATEMENT AND WHAT ALLAH S.W.T. HAS SAID IN THE HOLY QURAAN THAT BOTH EXACTLY RECONCILE. SO YOU MUST REALISE THAT WHATEVER IMAM A.S. SAYS, IS EXACTLY WHAT ALLAH S.W.T. HAS SAID. THAT IS WHY IMAM (A.S.) HAVE CLEARLY STATED THAT WHEN SOMEONE QUOTES ANY HADITH GIVING A REFERENCE OF ANY OF US, THEN COMPARE IT WITH THE HOLY QURAAN, IF IT AGREES WITH IT THEN ACCEPT IT AS OUR HADITH BUT IF IT CONTRADICTS THE HOLY QURAAN DASH IT AGAINST THE WALL - THAT IS IGNORE IT AS UNTRUE.
LET US NOW REMIND OURSELVES THAT USOOL - E - DEEN I.E. FAITH, FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM - MUST BE KNOWN, UNDERSTOOD LOGICALLY AND THEN BELIEVED. IN OTHER WORDS IT IS TERMED AS BELIEF, WHEREAS IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW AND ONLY BELIEVE FUROO - E - DEEN, SINCE THESE ARE THE ORDERS FOR ACTION. SO FUROO - E - DEEN ARE TO BE BELIEVED AS COMPULSORY ORDERS OF ALLAH S.W.T. AND THEY MUST BE ACTED UPON IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH ONE'S DUTIES, AT MINIMUM LEVEL. FUROO - E- DEEN NEED NOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY LOGICAL MEANS, THEY MUST BE ACCEPTED AS ALLAH S.W.T.'S ORDERS AS GIVEN IN THE HOLY QURAAN. WE OBSERVED LOGICALLY AND AS EVIDENCED BY THE HOLY QURAAN THE SHAITAAN (THE DEVIL) BELIEVED IN: 1. UNITY OF ALLAH S.W.T., 2. PROPHETS - (TO COME) AND 3. DAY OF JUDGEMENT -25- BUT HIS BELIEF AS REGARDS 1. ADL - JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. AND 2. KHILAFA - (IMAMAT - VICEGERENCY) WERE SHAKY OR HE IGNORED THEM SO HE BECAME KAFIR AND ALLAH S.W.T. IN SURA - E - SAAD (CHAPTER 38 PART 23) VERSES 77 AND 78 OUTCASTED HIM AND CURSED HIM (WITH LAANAT) UP TO THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT. SO DEAR READER, IF YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN THE TWO LATTER BELIEFS AS PART OF A COMPLETE ISLAMIC BELIEF (USOOL-E-DEEN) - WHICH IS THE RIGHT PATH, PLEASE ACCEPT THEM AFTER LOGICALLY UNDERSTANDING THEM OTHERWISE YOU WILL DRAG YOURSELF TO FALL IN THE GROUP OF SHAITAN AND PREFER YOUR PERMANENT ABODE WITH HIM APART FROM BEING OUTCAST AND CURSED BY ALLAH S.W.T.. YOU OBSERVED THAT BELIEVING IN THE FIRST THREE FUNDAMENTALS ONLY IS INCOMPLETE ISLAMIC FAITH AND WHILST WE ARE ALIVE, IT IS VERY MUCH INCUMBENT UPON US TO UNDERSTAND THIS LOGICALLY WITH EXAMPLES SET BY ALLAH S.W.T. HIMSELF AND RECTIFY OUR BELIEF TO MAKE IT COMPLETE TRUE ISLAMIC BELIEF. SINCE IT IS LOGICALLY INCUMBENT UPON ANY KING TO MAKE THE RULES REGARDING HIS COUNTRY KNOWN TO THOSE WHO LIVE IN HIS KINGDOM AND LOGICALLY HE WOULD APPOINT HIS OWN REPRESENTATIVES SO IS THE CASE WITH THE SUPREME CREATOR. HE HAS APPOINTED HIS OWN REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE TERMED AS PROPHETS AND IMAMS AND THIS CHAIN OF REPRESENTATIVES IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY AND ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF JUSTICE. SO WE SHALL PROCEED WITH EXPLANATION OF PROPHETHOOD IN BOOK NO. 3 AND IMAMAT (KHILAFAT) IN BOOK NO. 4 TO END WITH BOOK NO. 5 ON QAYAAMAT - DAY OF JUDGEMENT. WE HAVE THEREFORE REALISED THAT APART FROM THE MEANING OF “JUSTICE” AS KNOWN BY THE HUMAN BEINGS, JUSTICE OF ALLAH S.W.T. CARRIES MUCH DEEPER AND WIDER MEANING WHICH HUMAN WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE AND SENSES CANNOT ENCOMPASS OR EVEN ESTIMATE. THEREFORE IF WE START PONDERING OVER EACH AND EVERY CREATION OF ALLAH S.W.T. SENSIBLY AND INTELLIGENTLY WE WILL FIND THE LIGHT OF HIS ALL JUSTICE EVER ILLUMINATING OUR SENSES AND POWER OF UNDERSTANDING WHICH WILL MAKE US PROSTRATE TO HIM AND OBEY HIM WITH HIGHEST RESPECT AND LOVE HIM FOR EVER AND AT EVERY PART OF A SECOND.

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